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- 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards For Year - 2010
••• • AWARD GENREThe GRAMMY's
are the only peer-presented award to honor artistic
achievement, technical proficiency and overall
excellence in the recording industry, without
regard to album sales or chart
position.
•••
• On Sunday February 13, 2011 the big trophies
were carried out the door in the hands of Southern
trio Lady Antebellum and Montreal indie-rock band
Arcade Fire.
••• The
six-time nominees collected five awards, including
record of the year and song of the year, for their
megahit "Need You Now." That would prove hard to
top.
•••
• Meanwhile, Arcade Fire bested Lady Gaga,
Lady Antebellum (pictured), Katy Perry and Eminem,
winning the biggest honor, album of the year, for
The Suburbs.
•••
• Ten-time nominee Eminem picked up best rap
album for Recovery last night. "Okay, this is
crazy," he said as he received an ovation. "Thank
you to the fans."
•••
• In another unexpected choice, jazz bassist
Esperanza Spalding was named best new artist
despite strong competition, a.k.a. Justin Bieber
and Drake.
•••
• Six-time nominee Lady Gaga offered an
aerobic performance of "Born This Way" early in the
show,GAG also arrived in an egg, from which she
hatched onstage. Seriously.
•••
British rockers Muse won best rock album for The
Resistance, and singer Matthew Bellamy gave a
shout-out on stage to pregnant girlfriend Kate
Hudson. • "THE
WINNERS ARE": •••
• Album of the Year: "The Suburbs," Arcade
Fire
•••
• • Record of the Year: "Need You Now,"
Lady Antebellum
•••
• Song of the Year: "Need You Now," Dave
Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley and
••••• Hillary
Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
•••
• New Arist: Esperanza Spalding
•••
• Female Pop Vocal Performance: "Bad Romance,"
Lady Gaga
•••
• Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Just The Way
You Are," Bruno Mars
•••
• Pop Performance by a Duo or Group: "Hey Soul
Sister," Train
•••
• Pop Vocal Album: "The Fame Monster," Lady
Gaga
•••
• Alternative Album: "Brothers," The Black
Keys
•••
• Traditional Pop Vocal Album: "Crazy Love,"
Michael Buble
•••
• Rock Song: "Angry World," Neil Young
•••
• Rock Album: "The Resistance," Muse
•••
• Rock Performance: "Tighten Up," The Black
Keys
•••
• Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Helter
Skelter," Paul McCartney
•••••(from Good
Evening New York City)
•••
• Hard Rock Performance: "New Fang," Them
Crooked Vultures
•••
• R&B Album: "Wake up!" John Legend &
The Roots
•••
• Contemporary R&B Album: "Raymond V
Raymond," Usher
•••
• R&B Song: "Shine," John Legend & The
Roots
•••
• R&B Performance: "Soldier Of Love,"
Sade
•••
• Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "Hang
On In There," John Legend and The Roots
•••
• Urban/Alternative Performance: "(Forget)
You," Cee Lo Green
•••
• Rap Album: "Recovery," Eminem
•••
• Rap Solo Performance: "Not Afraid,"
Eminem
•••
• Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: "On To
The Next One," Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz
•••
• Rap Song: "Empire State of Mind," Jay-Z and
Alicia Keys
•••
• Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Empire State Of
Mind," Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
•••
• Dance Recording: "Only Girl (In The World),"
Rihanna
•••
• Electronic Dance Album: "La Roux," La
Roux
•••
• Musical Show Album: "American Idiot,"
(Featuring Green Day)
•••
• Traditional World Music Album: "Ali And
Toumani," Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
•••
• Contemporary World Music Album: "Throw Down
Your Heart, Africa Sessions Part 2," Bela Fleck
•••
• Latin Pop Album: "Paraiso Express,"
Alejandro Sanz
•••
• Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album: "El
Existenial," Grupo Fantasma.
•••
• Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradicion,
Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
•••
• Norteno Album: "Classic," Intocable.
•••
• Banda Album: "Enamorate De Mi," El Guero y
su Banda Centenario.
•••
• Latin Jazz Album: "Chucho's Steps," Chucho
Valdes and The Afro-Cuban Messengers.
•••
• Tejano Album: "Recuerdos," Little Joe y La
Familia.
•••
• Male Country Vocal Performance: "'Til Summer
Comes Around," Keith Urban
•••
• Female Country Vocal Performance: "The House
That Built Me," Miranda Lambert
•••
• Country Album: "Need You Now," Lady
Antebellum
•••
"Need You Now," Lady Antebellum
•••
• Country Song: "Need You Now," Dave Haywood,
Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott,
•••••
••••• songwriters
(Lady Antebellum)
•••
• Country Collaboration With Vocals: "As She's
Walking Away," Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson
•••
• Contemporary Jazz Album: "The Stanley Clarke
Band," The Stanley Clarke Band
•••
• Jazz Vocal Album: "Eleanora Fagan
(1915-1959): To Billie With Love
From Dee Dee," Dee Dee Bridgewater
•••
• Jazz Instrumental Album: "Moody 4B," James
Moody
•••
• Improvised Jazz Solo: "A Change is Gonna
Come," Herbie Hancock
•••
• Large Ensemble Jazz Album: "Mingus Big Band
Live at Jazz Standard," Mingus Big Band
•••
• Traditional Blues Album: "Joined At The
Hip," Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes'
Smith
•••
• Contemporary Blues Album: "Living Proof,"
Buddy Guy
•••
• Traditional Folk Album: "Genuine Negro Jig,"
Carolina Chocolate Drops
•••
• Contemporary Folk Album: "God Willin' and
The Creek Don't Rise,"
••••• Ray
LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs
•••
• Pop Collaboration With Vocals: "Imagine,"
Herbie Hancock and Larry Klein,
••••• arrangers
(Herbie Hancock, Pink, Seal, Jeff Beck, India.Arie,
Konono No 1 & Oumou Sangare)
•••
• Pop Instrumental Album: "Take Your Pick,"
Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto
•••
• Pop Instrumental Performance: "Nessun
Dorma," Jeff Beck
•••
• Rock Instrumental Performance: "Hammerhead,"
Jeff Beck
•••
• Bluegrass Album:
"Mountain Soul II," Patty Loveless •••
• Americana Album: "You Are Not Alone," Mavis
Staples •••http://www.grammy.com/•
Hawaiian Music Album: "Huana Ke Aloha," Tia
Carrere
•••
• Native American Music Album: "2010 Gathering
Of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance,"
••••• (Various
Artists) Derek Mathews, Dr. Lita Mathews &
Melonie Mathews, producers
••••• (Gathering Of
Nations Records)
•••
• Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: "Zydeco
Junkie," Chubby Carrier and The Bayou Swamp
Band
•••
• Reggae Album: "Before The Dawn," Buju
Banton
•••
• Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel
Album: "The Reason," Diamond Rio
•••
• New Age Album: "Miho: Journey To The
Mountain,"Paul Winter Consort
•••
• Metal Performance: "El Dorado," Iron
Maiden
•••
• Country Instrumental Performance:
"Hummingbyrd," Marty Stuart
•••
• Musical Album For Children: "Tomorrow's
Children," Pete Seeger with The
Rivertown Kids and Friends
•••
• Spoken Word Album For Children: "Julie
Andrews' Collection Of Poems,
••••• Songs, And
Lullabies," Julie Andrews and Emma Walton
Hamilton
•••
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Danger
Mouse, for Broken Bells
•••
• Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: "One Love
Club," David Guetta and
••••• Afrojack's
remix of Madonna's Revolver
•••
• Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: "Love God.
Love People," Israel Houghton
•••
• Gospel Song: "It's What I Do," Jerry Peters
& Kirk Whalum, songwriters
•••
• Gospel Performance: "Grace," BeBe and CeCe
Winans
•••
• Traditional Gospel Album: "Downtown Church,"
Patty Griffin
•••
• Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: "Hello Hurricane,"
Switchfoot
•••
• Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: "Still,"
BeBe and CeCe Winans
•••
• Classical Album: "Verdi: Requiem," Riccardo
Muti, conductor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra;
Chicago Symphony Chorus
•••
• Choral Performance: "Verdi: Requiem"
Riccardo Muti, conductor;
••••• Chicago
Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus
•••
• Classical Contemporary Composition: "Michael
Daugherty:
••••• Metropolis
Symphony / Deus Ex Machina," Giancarlo Guerrero
•••
• Classical Producer: David Frost
•••
• Orchestral Performance: "Daugherty:
Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina,"
••••• Giancarlo
Guerrero, conductor; Nashville Symphony
•••
• Opera Recording: "Saariaho: L'Amour De
Loin," Kent Nagano, conductor;
••••• Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Rundfunkchor Berlin
•••
• Spoken Word Album: "The Daily Show With Jon
Stewart Presents Earth
••••• (The
Audiobook)," Jon Stewart
•••
• Comedy Album: "Stark Raving Black," Lewis
Black
•••
• Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion
Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media:
••••• "Crazy
Heart," (Various Artists) Stephen Bruton & T
Bone Burnett, producers
•••
• Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture,
Television Or Other Visual Media: "Toy Story 3,"
••••• Randy Newman,
composer
•••
• Song Written For Motion Picture, Television
Or Other Visual Media:
••••• The Weary
Kind (From Crazy Heart) Ryan Bingham & T Bone
Burnett, songwriters
•••
• Historical Album: The Beatles (The Original
Studio Recordings)
•••
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108 - AOL
Buys Huffington Post-$315 Million.
•••
8th Wk - FEBRURAY 2011. AOL -- Chief
Executive Tim Armstrong announced in early
February, (2011), that it had purchased the OnLine
magazine/news paper --
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ for
$315-million.
•••
AOL, in purchasing the 5-year-old news and politics
website HuffingtonPost.com, a founded, and
developed by Arianna Huffington, plans to reinvent
itself as a must-read source for online news,
gossip and opinion.
•••
AOL, the first Internet organization to jump into
the Hollywood scene by the purchase of Warner Bros.
stock, and the company that introduced the massive
dial-up business, is planing to reverse its mis-
fortunes.
•••
AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong has given some
AOL investors a future into the world of Google,
Facebook, and tviNews," says tviMagazine -
Smart90.com editor/publisher, Josie Cory. The
latest deal could help AOL pull off a turnaround.
The Deal of the Century? "The Ted Turner /
AOL-Warner Deal."
•••
Critics of the deal said AOL was taking a risky
gamble by agreeing to a price that was more than 30
times the Huffington Post's annual operating cash
flow of $10 million. Typically buyers pay 10 to 15
times the cash flow, said Clayton Moran, an analyst
at Benchmark Co.
•••
"The Price-Tag was quite high," say some
experts.
•••
AOL expects the Huffington Post's cash flow to be
closer to $30 million by 2012 -- a figure that
would put the sale price more in line with industry
norms.
•••
Armstrong, a former Google Inc. executive, is
hoping AOL's extensive advertising sales force can
help the Huffington Post attract more ad dollars.
Armstrong was charge of the U.S. ad business for
Google.
•••
The Huffington Post is the latest addition to AOL's
portfolio of dozens of websites, including the
recently acquired technology news blog TechCrunch,
the tech blog Engadget, the Moviefone movie listing
site and the local news effort Patch. AOL is also
affiliated with the gossip site TMZ.
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Palin
USPTO Trademark Request Rejected. Why? "Sarah
Palin's T-Parties" / "The Bristol Dance
Step"
•••
The former
Alaska governor Sarah Palin's bid to trademark both
her name and that of her daughter Bristol
ran into trouble at the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) because the the application
forms were not signed, government records
show.
•••
"Everybody's
Name is sort of their brand, and once it gets
associated with goods or services, then it
functions as a trademark," says Seattle lawyer
Marshall J. Nelson. Once a name is trademarked, it
gives the holder additional remedies to recover
profits and damages if someone uses the name
inappropriately.
•••
That holds
true for politicians as well as
entertainers.
•••
"The fact
that you happen to be a political figure certainly
doesn't prevent you from identifying your name in
connection with your products," Nelson reported to
the press, noting that one of the earliest
trademarks in U.S. history was granted to Paul
Revere for his pots and pans -- something that
lives on today with Revere cooking products.
•••
Both of the
Palins' trademark applications state: "The mark
consists of standard characters, without claim to
any particular font, style, size, or color." • Sarah
Palin listed usage of the trademark? --- Palin
cited -- a InterNet Website featuring information
about political elections; political issues; and
educational and entertainment services, including
motivational speaking in the fields of politics,
culture, business and values. • The Next
step after paying the $360.00 TM Application Fee,
is -- for the
USPTO Office to offer STEP TWO - proving-up the
reasons of filing, and the commercial value of said
®™.
The initially denying the application-- IS PART of
the routine, - seeking more
--
information, the USPTO office noted that
neither Palin signed her application, a
requirement.
•••
The office
also said Sarah Palin's request under political
elections needed more examples of usage rather than
the submitted a grab of a Web page featuring a news
article about Fox News hiring her as a
consultant.
•••
The
USPTO is also seeking more examples of usage
of the name for the political issues section, other
than postings on her Facebook page. This "does not
show use of the mark as 'providing a website
featuring http://sarahpalin.com/." Rather the
proposed mark merely appears as a posting name,"
USPTO examing attorney Karen K. Bush wrote.
As of Feb. 6th, the Website reads, "This page
intentionally left blank."
http://www.bristolpalin.com/ includes a
video • Sarah Palin, daughter Bristol seek to
register trademarks with the USPTO -- on their
names •••
The
USPTO office is now seeking additional
details for the Bristol Palin application submitted
in September - 2010, a contestant on ABC's "Dancing
with the Stars."
• Palin's attorney, John J. Tiemessen,
said Friday, Feb. 4th, that he has six months to
provide the information.
•••
"We
are preparing to respond to all their questions for
both," he told The Associated Press by telephone
from his office in Fairbanks.
••• He
said he couldn't disclose the reasons why both
applied for trademarks because of attorney-client
privilege.
••• But
Seattle lawyer Marshall J. Nelson, is with the firm
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, says it's not that
unusual for entertainers to trademark their
names.
•
The former
Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice
presidential candidate for the president of the
U.S. - was thrust into the national spotlight
shortly after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., picked
Palin as his running mat, and Palin announced her
unwed, teenage daughter was pregnant.
•••
She has
since become a spokeswoman for an organization that
seeks to motivate young people to prevent teen
pregnancy. Her trademark application cited
motivational speaking services in the field of life
choices.
•••
The younger
Bristol Palin's appearance on a panel discussing
abstinence at Washington University in St. Louis
was canceled this month after students expressed
outrage she would be paid from student-generated
funds.•
•••
The federal
office is seeking more information and examples of
usage. The USPTO office said, "Please note this
refusal will be withdrawn if applicant provides
written consent from the individual identified in
the applied-for
mark."
•••
The office
also explained that Palin's application failed to
show that her name had been used in commerce and
that it could also be rejected on those grounds.
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106 - Bank of America Corp Collections,
and
the "ONE SATIFACTION
RULE."
•••
BofA appointed on Friday Feb
4th, a new foreclosure, loan modifications, and
collection division. The new unit will oversee
"Problem Loans" in a bid to sort out its ongoing
foreclosure, and Title issues, becoming the first
large U.S. bank to do so, especially after the
Country-Wide buyout.
•••
The new unit creates a
seventh major division at the bank reporting
directly to Chief Executive Brian Moynihan, an
indication that the largest U.S. mortgage servicer
is attempting to be more aggressive in resolving
its problem loan portfolio.
•••
Analysts said the move is a
signal that major U.S. mortgage lenders have not
yet turned the corner on dealing with the problem
home loans on their books.
•••
"This is a significant step.
If Bank of America has these issues, what kind of
problems does everyone else have?" said Matt
McCormick, a Cincinnati-based portfolio manager at
Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel Inc.
•••
The change splits the bank's
mortgage business into two parts: one focused on
current and new mortgages, and the other on
property we now have title, by a forclosure that
are not covered BY the "ONE SATIFACTION RULE."
•••
Bank of America, the largest
U.S. bank by assets, named Terry Laughlin to
oversee the new unit, called legacy asset
servicing. The division will have roughly 30,000
employees.
•••
The new unit will manage
foreclosures and loan modifications, and will work
to resolve mortgage repurchase claims from
investors, not covered BY the "ONE SATIFACTION
RULE.".
•••
Last fall, when the FTC's
Red Flag, anti-theft prevention act came into play,
the bank temporarily suspended foreclosures after
critics alleged the industry cut corners on
foreclosure paperwork and used so-called
robo-signers, employees who signed thousands of
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101-TomHanks-GoetzmanTalkShow/ •"The Three Minute
Talk Show"
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone,
along with Lexus' LStudio, the content
arm of automaker Lexus, have
their web-only series production "The
Three Minute Talk Show," premiering on
LStudio's Broadband Channel.
•••
Premiere episodes
feature veteran actors Tom Hanks, and
Bryan Cranston.
•••
Upcoming
star-studded guests include Jon Cryer,
Johnny Knoxville, Stephen Moyer, Joe
Jonas, Mike O'Mallewy, Ginnifer Goodwin,
and many more. • "The Three Minute Talk Show,"
whose segments actually run about six
minutes, was created specifically for the
web, and features everything that
audiences have come to expect from a talk
show all condensed into approximately
three minutes. • About Playtone •••
Playtone is Tom
Hanks and Gary Goetzman's film and
television production company. Film
releases include MAMMA MIA!, WHERE THE
WILD THINGS ARE, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, THE
POLAR EXPRESS, and MY BIG FAT GREEK
WEDDING.
•••
Television credits
include the Emmy winning miniseries "The
Pacific", "John Adams" and "Band of
Brothers"; and Emmy nominated HBO series
"Big Love" and "The 25th Anniversary Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame Concert." Hanks
and Goetzman recently completed production
on the romantic comedy LARRY CROWNE, which
Hanks directed and stars in with Julia
Roberts. •
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101- Event: CTIA Wireless 2010 - MARCH
22-25 - Las Vegas Convention Center
•
101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
• •
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008. •
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101-
Arts Entertainment - VRA To Release New
WebPlay
vContent å•••
Universal City, CA -- March 2010 /
Video Record Albums of America, (VRA
TelePlay) announces the release of more
than 100 new CD and DVD volumes of
vContent, and software for WebPlay sales,
that include the license for
RadioPlay.
•••
Each CD and DVD features musical stylings,
and seamlessly software to play the Troy
Cory Show, including Troy's vMusic Stage
Concerts performed in the U.S., China,
England, Germany - EU -- since 1968. His
TV-shows went into syndication in 1972.
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101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
•• •
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
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101
-TCS CloseUp-TakeTwo.htm. A year ago, I
wrote a D-Diary memo identifying long-term
barriers to permanent transformation of
the Service Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the Monetary
Crash of 2008.
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•••
Back then, in the pre-Obama era, I and my
many D-Diary memos would have been
summarily shredded. But under Pres. Obama,
not only is outside criticism invited, he
assigned himself as the chief salesman to
work through the issues. While the road to
permanent transformation stretches a long
way in front of us, there is a key reason
that we are on it at all.
•••
Pres. Obama has been an extraordinary
leader who has recast the White House's
approach to governing. In my opinion, and
with a talented team, a determined federal
judge and an unusually capable congress,
Pres. Obama will accomplished a remarkable
turnaround of a government that had defied
all previous interventions to rein in its
both Pro and Con Hot Topic behavior.
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Financial Reforms
•••
But no president could completely alter
the DNA of the goodtime Charlie's of Wall
Street. Permanent reform will take much
longer, and it will happen only if the
president can continue to drive the
mandate down to the financial, foriegn
trade, and health industries, where there
are still holdouts itching to reverse
course. •
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top priorities:
• Make Service Your First Priority,
Not Success and Success Will Follow
• Your tviNew HotTopic list might
look like this:
• 1. Family
• 2. Meaningful work
• 3. Health and well-being
• 4. Financial freedom
• 5. Travel and adventure
• Your list might look like
this:
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Troy•
101s-
Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe •••
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of original
songs recorded in
Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay,
Grammy winner for "Fly Robin, Fly," who
later had great success with his musical
"Elisabeth," and was the co-writer with
Troy, and Ambros on Troy's BBC recordings,
"Hurricane," "Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey,"
and "Relax."
•••
During the last two
decades of Troy Cory's China concert
tours, Ambros Seelos delivered the
big-band background sound for many of
Troy's TV-stage performances, "Jeepers
Creepers" being a favorite amongst the
Chinese
audiences.
•••
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world, he
also performed together with giants of
Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning Hollywood
film composer and musical writer Sylvester
Levay ("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as a
producer for the living music legends
Elton John and Donna Summer. •
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Google TV project at I/O 2010. The Open
Platform will Bring the Internet to the
big TV
Screen.
•••
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010)
&emdash; Today at the Google I/O developer
conference in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the development
of Google TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience, ushering in
a new category of devices for the living
room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together
with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe,
joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google TV.
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103s - LAS
VEGAS HILTON CELEBRATES IT'S 40TH
ANNIVERSARY / By Pete
Allman •••
The Las Vegas
Hilton, which opened as the International
on July 2, 1969 is celebrating its
40th anniversary with a special day
for employees, special casino promotions,
commemorative gaming chips and a 24/7
happy
hour.
•••
It's been about 10 years since I
met William Barron Hilton,
co-chairman of the Hilton
Hotels chain, paternal grandfather
of Paris. For me, The Las
Vegas Hilton has been one of my preferred
places for celebrity interviews, which
include my interviews with Dennis Miller,
Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton, Bob Parker and
late James Brown "The Godfather of Soul",
to name a few.
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Copyright Infringement Ruling/ P- 1 /
• 106pa- Viacom vs YouTube - Viacom
Appeals Copyright Ruling • P- 1
/ •••
- Owner of Paramount and MTV asserts that
the video site's founders operated outside
legal bounds to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
YouTube owner Google vows to fight the
appeal.
•••
- Media giant Viacom Inc. has challenged a
June ruling that video website YouTube did
not violate federal copyright laws when it
allowed users to upload thousands of
pirated clips to the wildly popular
site.
•••
- In a 72-page appeal filed Friday, Viacom
asserted that YouTube's founders
aggressively operated outside legal bounds
in an effort to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
Google Inc. bought YouTube in October 2006
for $1.65 billion.
•••
- Google has said it has spent $100
million to defend against the suit. Viacom
recently hired former U.S. Solicitor Gen.
Ted Olson to help guide its appeal. • CLICK
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106Google
Sues U.S. to break Microsofts
Monopoly. ••-
Google Inc. - is suing U.S. to break the
Software monopoly, rival Microsoft Corp,
and Adobe has on the U.S. Government.
Google, the U.S. Department of the
Interior for allegedly excluding Google's
bid to provide its e-mail system.
••-
Google sues U.S. over bidding for e-mail
contract
••-
But Google has run into difficulties in
its attempts to loosen the tight grip that
Redmond, Wash., software giant Microsoft
has on the e-mail market, which includes
decades of relationships with some of the
world's largest businesses and government
agencies. • CLICK
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• 106pa
Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFT on
the handset maker's line of Android
phones. •••
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
•••
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
•••
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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- Did Google's YouTube Really Infringe on
Viacom
Copyrights?
•••
NO,
Says. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in
New York ON Jun 24, 2010.
As
U.S.
District Judge Louis L. Stanton in New
York explained,
Congress recognized that the Internet
couldn't function if broadband providers,
search engines and hosting services were
held liable for every unauthorized copy
made on their networks. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 protected
those companies from liability as long as
they acted quickly to remove any
infringing material identified by
copyright holders. • CLICK
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106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear
off? • •
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
deals with
Google.
•• •
Access to Google's
Hong Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting concerns of
business users of Gmail and other Google
services with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that would allow
business users in mainland China to access
a corporate network offshore, similar to
what other businesses do. @
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106CarbonMonoxideLaw
/ New law to require home carbon monoxide
detectors
•••
May 7, 2010 /
California homeowners will be required to
install carbon monoxide detectors starting
in July 2011 under a bill signed Friday by
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that is aimed
at preventing deaths and injuries caused
by poisoning from the odorless, colorless
gas.
•••
The bill requires
that alarm devices, which can cost less
than $30, to be installed in existing
single-family homes that have a
fossil-fuel burning appliance, fireplace
or attached garage, starting in mid-2011.
All other residential units will have to
have the detectors in place by Jan. 1,
2013.
•••
In addition to the
firefighters association, the legislation
also was supported by the California Alarm
Assn. and Home Depot. •
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• 106
- Can an Arab get a bill passed in
Israel? •• •
During the last
Knesset, Ahmad TiBi passed four
[Israel Kaws]. "Before that, I
passed another four or five," he said in a
recent May 2010 LAtimes interview. ("But
it's very difficult for an Arab MK to pass
even one motion. Mine were all universal
laws that were good for both Jews and
Arabs, about medical issues, environment,
anti-corruption. But if I brought a law on
the issue of land allocation or cessation
of discrimination, it would immediately be
brought
down.
•• •
I tried it three
months ago with a motion that said simply
the allocation of land by the state should
be equal for all citizens. I didn't
mention "Jewish" or "Arab" citizens.
Automatically the vast majority of the
Knesset voted against me. Any motion with
the principle or word "equality" will
fail. There is not one basic law in the
Knesset talking about the value of equal
rights. Every Knesset I try to pass it.
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May 6, 2010 / The Federal Communications
Commission plans to unveil its road map
for regulating braoadband providers in
response to a feederal court ruling last
month that cast doubt on the agency's
authority over high-speed Internet
access. •••
TheFCC
is expected to impose additional rules on
broadband providers to ensure that the
government has the authority for a plan to
bring high-speed connections to all
Americans and prohibit Internet providers
from discriminating against some kinds of
online traffic. •••
The
agecy now treats broadband as a lightly
regulated information service. But since
the ruling, the FCC has been debating
whether to impose "common carrier"
obligations that make telecom services
share their networks. The agency says it
will seek a third
way. •
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/ September 21, 2009 / FCC Ensuring
Net neutrality. Julius Genachowski, the
new FCC chairman is right to want new
rules that would keep service providers
from limiting selected data traveling
through their networks. •• •Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies argue
that there's little evidence of ISPs
playing unfairly or violating Powell's
four freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved to
stop Comcast from surreptitiously
interfering with a legal file-sharing
application last year, Comcast sued,
claiming the commission had no power to
enforce the principles. •
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106CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
• •
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008. •
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106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear
off? • •
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
deals with Google. • CLICK
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(210) /
IT WAS ON September 21, 2009 THAT
MONDAY FREEBIES - Google, Yahoo WiTEL
vs AT&T, etc. -- began to think about
"recurring fee" structure." •
Internet 'net neutrality' is endorsed by
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes
formalizing rules and adding mandates that
he says would keep online traffic moving
freely. The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service..'
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AT&T and Cable Telcos Rejects project
•• •But
the telecommunications and the cable
companies that control both land-line and
wireless access to the Internet argue that
some customers who download large amounts
of data, such as a continuous flow of
movies, can jam their networks.
Regulations that prevent the companies
from restricting such bandwidth hogs, they
contend, would hamper their networks, harm
innovation and delay
upgrades.•
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Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims •••
February
2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents. •••
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp •••
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. @
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107
Charles (Chuck) W. Fries - About
January-2011 Cover
Feature.
•••
Godfather
of The Television Movie - Charles
(Chuck) W. Fries, Senior Executive and
vContent
Producer.
Chuck is a longtime film and television
producer and serves as CEO and Executive
Producer of Chuck
Fries Productions. His autobiography,
Chuck Fries -- Godfather of the
Television Movie -- A History of
Television, traces Fries' rise in the
entertainment industry and details his
role in its evolution. •••
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fries
graduated from Ohio State University and
moved to Hollywood in 1952 to launch his
career in entertainment. His first
opportunity came when he joined Ziv
Television, where he reported to
California Studios (now Raleigh Studios).
Ziv produced pioneer syndicated shows such
as "The Cisco Kid," "Highway Patrol,"
and "Sea Hunt," among others. •••
In 1960, he was appointed vice president
in charge of production for Screen Gems,
the Columbia Pictures' television arm and
was involved in the production of series
such as "Father Knows Best," "Naked
City," "Route 66," "Bewitched" and and
many other standout comedies of the 60s.
Fries later became vice president of
feature film production for Columbia
Pictures and worked on films such as
"Castle Keep," "The Horseman" and "Five
Easy Pieces." In all, Fries has
participated in the production of more
than 5,000 series episodes, 275 hours of
television movies or mini-series, and more
than 50 theatrical films.
••••••
Fries received an Honorary Doctor of Fine
Arts Degree from the Ohio State
University. He was named one of fifty
outstanding Cincinnatians on the 200th
anniversary of the City along with
luminaries such as Ted Turner, Dr. Albert
Sabin and Neil Armstrong. And he was also
one of the top 50 students of Elder High
School, where he gave the commencement
address on the 50th anniversary of the
school. Additionally, Fries was awarded
the Frederic W. Ziv Award, established by
the pioneering syndicator, for his
outstanding accomplishments in television
by the University of Cincinnati Electronic
Media Division of the University's
Conservatory. •
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107 People: Ted
Turner - Chairman of the United Nations
Foundation.
•••
Throughout his
career, Ted Turner has received
recognition for his entrepreneurial
acumen, sharp business skills, leadership
qualities, and his unprecedented
philanthropy. Whether in billboard
advertisement, cable television, sailing,
environmental initiatives or philanthropy,
Turner's vision, determination, generosity
and forthrightness have consistently given
the world reason to take
notice.
•••
Turner is Chairman
of the United Nations Foundation,
Co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and Chairman of the Turner
Foundation. He is the founder of numerous
cable networks including CNN, TNT and
Cartoon Network, and a partner in the
Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain.
Turner is also Chairman of Turner
Enterprises, Inc., which manages his
business interests, land holdings and
investments, including the oversight of
two million acres in 12 states and in
Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison
head.
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107-
OSCAR®
ACADEMY
/ ABOUT THE ACADEMY •
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ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
•
•
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is the world's preeminent
movie-related organization, with a
membership of more than 6,000 of the most
accomplished men and women working in
cinema. In addition to the annual Academy
Awards &endash; in which the members vote
to select the nominees and winners
&endash; the Academy presents a diverse
year-round slate of public programs,
exhibitions and events; provides financial
support to a wide range of other
movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the
advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library
and Academy Film Archive, collects,
preserves, restores and provides access to
movies and items related to their history.
Through these and other activities the
Academy serves students, historians, the
entertainment industry and people
everywhere who love movies.
•
•
Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Center®, and televised live by the ABC
Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/
8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also
will be televised live in more than 200
countries worldwide. • CLICK
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Report.
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107 - The Berlin Wall - Road To
Europe,
and
"Starmaker"
and
SantaTales." •
•
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden,
and Barbara Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
•
•
It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos,
music arranger, composer and songwriter,
Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy - "Fly,
Robin, Fly," ), and lyricist and
translator, Jossi Sigl produced the
origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in
Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
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SantaTroyCoryCastle108w.jpg •
•
The String section on the Munich Sound
recordings was provided by "The Munich
Philharmonics," piano and arrangements by
Sylvester Levay. Several years later it
was Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
•
•
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle." • CLICK
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TCS
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•
108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims •••
February
2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents. •••
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp •••
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. @
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108-Patent
Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims •••
February
2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents. •••
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp •••
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. •
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108brin&PageToSellGooglestock
. •••
Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece
of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices. •••
According to regulatory documents, Page
and Brin will still own 47.7 million
shares or 48% of the voting power,
combined after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt
controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio
will still continue to control the
company. • CLICK
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•108Editor&PublisherRevived.
/ EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one
hundred year old publishing company is
back in business again. •••
EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded
in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The
Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is
back in business again, "seamlessly" . . .
says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews.
Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper
industry, the publication has been
revived" under a new publisher just two
weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable
trade magazine down.
•••
Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based
company that ironically publishes FishRap
News, and titles such as Boating World,
has acquired it for undisclosed terms.
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•••
U.S.
and Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank
accounts. The agreement will end a legal
case in which the U.S. sought names of
Americans suspected of evading
taxes.
•••
U.S.
and Swiss negotiators have initialed a
settlement that averts a legal showdown
over the U.S. government's landmark
challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a
government lawyer said
Wednesday.
•••
The
U.S. government had sought a federal court
ruling compelling Switzerland's largest
bank, UBS, to turn over the names of
Americans suspected of dodging taxes
through the use of 52,000 secret
accounts.•
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The
Forbidden Ciy Project. •• •
"The only names
retained by the Chinese 'Forebidden City'
project are the the words "City" and
Mandarin Oriental," says Troy Cory, of the
Jockey Club Alliance Group,
•••
Thanks
to MGM, Dubai World, the massive
CityCenter walk, formerly knows as the the
1993 China Expo Las Vegas Jockey Club
Forbidden City Boardwalk Project, opend
its door on
December 17,
1009.
•••
TVI's Pete Allman, and the associated
press reported Las Vegas "visitors by the
thousands" streamed into the newest
casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip on
Thursday.
•••
Fireworks and fanfare greeted the official
opening of the Aria Resort & Casino,
the 4,000-room, 61-story centerpiece of
the $8.5-billion CityCenter complex.
Crowds began swarming through the doors
around midnight. • CLICK
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109s - TVImagazine
Photo Ops - 18w and
interviews.
The panel will explore the potential of
the combination of the TV, the set-top,
the broadband connection and digital video
recorder and how every player in the
entertainment and technology food chain
&endash; from content owner to middleware
and headend operator, to the subscriber
service provider and finally to the CE
manufacturer, all play an equally key
role. •
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STORY-109 ///
MAY 22, 2010 / Google
Inc.'s $750 million acquisition of mobile
ad service AdMob cleared its final hurdle
Friday with a boost from AdMob's jilted
suitor, Apple
Inc.
•• •
The Federal Trade
Commission said it unanimously decided to
approve Google's AdMob deal mainly because
of Apple's recent push into the $600
million mobile advertising market in the
U.S. The ruling closes a six-month
antitrust investigation. •
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• OCT 23, 2009 /
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ws 7 launched -
STANDBY •••
Microsoft has taken two parallel routes in
its operating systems. One route has been
for the home user and the other has been
for the professional IT user.
•••
•••
Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released
in November, 1987 and was slightly more
popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03
(release date January 1988) had changed
the OS from tiled windows to overlapping
windows. The result of this change led to
Apple Computer filing a suit against
Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's
copyrights •
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111s-TCScloseUp-TakeTwo.htm.
A year ago, I wrote a D-Diary memo
identifying long-term barriers to
permanent transformation of the Service
Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008..
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Legends
of Poker - More Then Vegas / By
Pete
Allman
•••
The game of poker is truly a game of skill
and in todays society, thanks to
television coverage and all those
celebrities indulging in the game, it is a
household word.
•••
Legend has it, that poker dates back
to 900 BC in China when Mu-Tsung was said
to have played a form of '' domino
cards''. It has also been said
that poker evovled in the 1400's as
a European game. However, Poker
in America started in Mississippi on
riverboats and was a compliment
to three card Monti , which was dealt
with a 20 card deck that only
contained aces, kings, queens, jacks
and10's.
•••
The big step in the evolution of poker was
in Neveda where it was declared
illegal in 1910.
In California the Attorney
General declared it a game of skill,
thus anti-gambling laws couldn't stop the
masses from playing poker. Then,
in 1931 poker was declared
a legal game in Nevada.
•••
What's not to like with a chef from Italy,
a diversed staff, and an all new
State-of-the-Art Grand Poker
Ballroom. It's an impressive and
exciting place to visit. A place where
younever know who's playing poker or for
that matter Pai Chi. •
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- China-USwinsMediaWar
| China's limits on entertainment imports
violate free trade practices, WTO
rules
••The
ruling is seen as a win for U.S.
industries working to distribute films,
music and books in China. Still, trade
experts say not to expect big
changes.
••Workers
make repairs to the display at a Beijing
movie theater near a model of a character
from the "Transformers" films. Wednesday's
World Trade Organization ruling could help
open the Chinese market to more U.S.
movies. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
••The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months. ••August
13, 2009 / Washington. The LAtimes
reported that . . . in deciding that China
broke international trade rules by
restricting imports of movies, music and
books, the World Trade Organization handed
the U.S. a victory in a contentious issue
that has long rankled purveyors of
copyrighted media products.
••But
it doesn't mean Hollywood or Silicon
Valley will be cashing in any time soon.
••The
ruling, issued Wednesday by a WTO panel in
Geneva, called on China to stop requiring
foreign media suppliers to go through the
costly process of distributing goods
through Chinese state-owned entities. It
also urged China to allow foreign
companies to sell music over the Internet,
a potentially huge opportunity for
companies such as Apple Inc., with its
iTunes. China has the largest number of
Internet users, but piracy online and in
the streets is rampant.
••Although
China has complied with past WTO rulings
against it, analysts say Beijing could
appeal the latest decision, which could
drag out the case for many more months.
The complaint was first brought by the
U.S. in spring
2007. •
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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD 2011
WINNERS •
The Golden Globe Award is presented by
-- the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)
in recognition of excellence in film and
television, domestic as well as foreign
production. These prestigious Globes
awards are one of the three most popular,
widely acclaimed and most watched award
shows on
television.
•••
This
year's annual January event, the 68th
Annual Golden Globe Awards was hosted by
Ricky Gervais, the British comedian and
creator of The Office and the ceremony was
telecast live from the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Los
Angeles. •
About the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association
--
•••
The
Hollywood Foreign Press Association is
known worldwide for its glittering Golden
Globe Awards ceremony held every January
and its multi-million dollar donations to
charity. •
GOLDEN
GLOBE AWARD 2011 WINNERS
• Cecil
B. DeMile Award:
Robert
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2011, Las Vegas, Nevada
The
Association's Mission: To serve as the
definitive source for information about
the consumer electronics industry. EVENT
COVERED BY TVI MAGAZINE JOURNALIST / Gary
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KARENNET CES PARTY LIST V. 4.1
JANUARY 6-9, 2011 -
LAS VEGAS http://www.thomaspr.com/partylist/ces2011.html • TUES, JAN 4: Special Press 4:00 PM -- 7:00 PM: CES Unveiled
-- Venetian, Venetian Ballroom (Invite
only)
•- WED, JAN 5:6:00 PM -- 11:00
PM: AT&T Wireless Developer's
Conference Reception -- Palms, Rain (9-11
PM Bare Naked Ladies
-http://www.2011devsummit.com
Tickets: $50-$70)
•- 7:00 PM --; 9:00 PM: LG
Mobile Party -- Venetian, Tao (Invite
only)
•- 7:00 PM -- 10:00 PM: Pepcom
-- Caesar's (Invite only)
•- 7:00 PM -- 1:00 AM: Lenova
-- Venetian, Aquaknox (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM: Audi -- Palms,
Ghost Bar (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM -- 11:00 PM:
GigaByte -- Venetian (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM -- 11:00 PM: Ace
Computers Mixer - Mandalay Bay (Invite
Only)
•- 8:00 PM -- 12:00 AM: Nissan
-- Palms, Little Buddha (Invite
only)
•- SAT, JAN
8:•- 5:00 PM -- 12:00 AM:
Xtremesystems Party - Pole Position
Raceway, 4175 S. Arville Rd (Invite
only)
•- 6:30 PM: World Electronics
Forum (WEF) Welcome Dinner -
Venetian, 3rd Floor meetings rooms (Invite
only)http://www.thomaspr.com/partylist/ces2011.html THOMAS PR
CLIENTS AT CES •- OWC - BOOTH #3935 -- North
Hall www.macsales.com
•- IDEVICES - BOOTH #4435 -- North
Hall www.igrillinc.com
•- ARTRAGE AT SHOWSTOPPERS
www.artrage.com
•- FITNESS TECHNOLOGIES -- BOOTH
#3130 -- North Hall
www.FitnessTechUSA.com
KIDZ GEAR -- MGM Suite
www.gearforkidz.com
•- THOMAS PR IS THE CES AUTHORITY
•- #1 AGENCY FOR CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS, INTERNET & SOFTWARE
PRODUCTS --
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Event: FILMFEST MUNCHEN - 2010 June 25th
July
3rd •
Special Events: Munich, Germany • 24 June
2010•••
• filmtonart.
Film Music Day
• 26 June
/•••
• Bozen Film
Festival Sören Bauer • 8.30
pm
• 28. June /
••
• teamWorx
Reception • 9.30-11.30 pm
• 29. June /
•••
• ZDF
Reception • 11.30 am /
• 30. June
/•••
• ARD Brunch
• 11.30 am - 2.00 pm
• 01. July to 03 • Closing
Event
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115.09-AmericanFilmMarket-AFI-fest • When:
2010: November 4 - 11 / The business
of independent motion picture production
and distribution - a truly collaborative
process - reaches its peak every year at
the American Film Market. Over 8,000
industry leaders converge in Santa Monica
for eight days of deal-making, screenings,
seminars, red carpet premieres, networking
and parties.
•••
Each fall, AFI FEST presents a survey of
the year's most significant films.
Featuring international work from emerging
filmmakers, global showcases of films from
the great masters and red-carpet gala
premieres, AFI FEST brings world cinema to
the heart of Hollywood. •
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GrandMarshal-PaulaDeen *
December - 2010 About the Pasadena
Tournament of Roses.
•••
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses is a
volunteer organization that annually hosts
the Rose Parade presented by Honda, Rose
Bowl Game presented by VIZIO and various
associated events.
•••
The 122nd Rose Parade presented by Honda,
themed Building Dreams, Friendships &
Memories, will take place Saturday, Jan.
1, 2011, at 8 a.m. (PST) featuring
majestic floral floats, high-stepping
equestrian units and spirited marching
bands.
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Troy Cory Show -
Historical: China-1990 "Eyes That Hypnotize" -
Beijing,
Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Players:
Cristy Thom; China's First Hawaiian Tropic Beauty
Contestants, Ron Rice, Priscilla Cory, Chris
Harris, Darlene Gan, Dino DeLorian. •
Narration: Jossi Sigl. Vocals: Troy Cory.
•
pectrums
they purchased from the to the FCC from
$1-Billion dollars, in part because -- it
is a strategy guided by necessity.
•••
A federal jury in
Oakland delivers the judgment against
German business software maker SAP in a
case that began in
2007.
•••
This was to become an essential part of me
. . . like, "as to why the sky was
blue." What were the components,
elements and effects of wired-wireless.
• Are AT&T's, Bell, Edison,
and NBS WiTEL's -- 100 year old service
marks ®™© really viable
forever - minus a day? . . . It had to be
understood.
•
Q&A - Rober Roche. CITA leading to the
best way -- to Validate
®™©
•
The highly watched Options-Backdating
Fraud Case -- brought on an Eight months
of house arrest for the former KB Home CEO
chief, Bruce Karatz. 
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